HIST 1122 Age of Reason

Click on the linked title to view the informative webpage designed by Dr. Richard Hooker, a professor at Washington State University. Please read through all sections on the Enlightenment as a study guide as well as a reference for your text reading. Many of the terms/concepts/people he has highlighted are also important for you to know in this class. Pictured in this post is a famous painting from the Renaissance/Enlightenment with which you may be familiar. The painter is Jan Vermeer (1632-1675). Do you know the name of the painting? Click here to read more about his work and art during the 17th-18th centuries.

HIST 2112- Thomas Nast and the Gilded Age

One of the leading satirical minds of the Guilded Age was political cartoonist Thomas Nast. Read his story and try to analyze the sarcastic meaning and message of his cartoons. Go to: http://cartoons.osu.edu/nast/bio.htm

For other insightful cartoons, drawings, newspaper account and descriptions of the Gilded and Progressive Era go to: http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm#life

HIST 1122 AND 2111- Slave Trade Visuals & Narratives

Click the linked title for more information on the slave trade and primary source images including drawings, paintings, ship diagrams, maps, and artifacts.


Also go to http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/ to read about Olaudah Equaino- a slave who bought his freedom and later wrote his memories from the Middle Passage and other significant times. His book is one of the few sources we have from a non-Western source. Consider his perspective and memory as you read.

Henry the VIIIth I am I am (HIST 1122 & HIST 2111)

Click on the linked title to learn more about the infamous king known as Henry VIIIth.

Also click on the following link to learn more about Henry's daughter Elizabeth as she ushered in a period of peace and increased prosperity for England.

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/eliza.htm

1122- What and where is the West?

Please read the following for background and history of the concept of the West (or the Western world). We will use this framework to analyze events, actions, and people throughout the semester.

The website is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world

2111 and 2112 -American Exceptionalism

Please read the following background of the concept and history of the idea of American exceptionalism. It is a framework that we will use throughout the semester.

The weblink is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Exceptionalism